G'Day from Australia

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I like to use a variety of materials to create my books. Sometimes the materials are my inspiration, other times I have a point to make or an idea to investigate. I have used a variety of materials; wood, textiles, plastic, metals and paper to create books. I work with sculpture, printmaking, textiles and artists' books.

Regeneration is an exhibition on at The Hanging Space Contemporary Art gallery managed by IAVA, the IllawarraAssociation for the Visual Arts. I am exhibiting monotypes and artist books.The space is shared with Mary Wingrave who is exhibiting collographs and altered books. The exhibition ends on 28th July 2012. …

Judy - hello - I made such a mix up with the numbers for Book # 3. Have you started working on it? If not, would you mind doing Book # 4??? Otherwise I was thinking why cant we just have 6 artists?? What do you think?

Dear Judy: I hope your grandson is better... Little children have the power of love and life with them.My best wishes for him.

I`ll send you some images of our Sand Book soon. Here is a little postcard I made from your drawings... We put them in the sand and then people took some to send to another people living at other shores. I hope you like it. Cheers!!!

Judy, when I get the entry form finalised and sent to you please let other book artists know about the exhibition. We want to involve lot of artists and to make this a significant exhibition.

My plan is also to have some of the artists give a little talk about their works - durng the weekend of the exhibition. I probably will also offer a special workshop to run at the time of the exhibition to stimulate interest.

If i manage to have the person opening it that I want (depends on her timetable) then we my see if she (Adel Outteridge) can also give a short workshop - lts to still organise but it will be quite a show.

Judy, I was one of the book artists that exhibited in the Manly Librarty exhibition. It was a great step for the library and they are planning to hold this exibition again in 2 years time.

I have a group of artists that meet in my workshop (Sydney) each month for general chat, I share ideas and problems. Very much to encourage and stimulate each other. I must try to get images of some of their works on my blog.

I mention this as we welcome othere to join us if they are interested and we, as a group, are behind the organising and preparing for the forthcoming ArtBound artists book exhibition. I guess you are too far away for this but please keep it in mind if you can ever get to Sydney - we meet on a Saturday afternoon from 4.00 to 6.00pm/.

Judy, I am delighted to have you as a friend. Your work, in my mind, is definately part of the exciting world of Artists Books - a form of paper engineering - and a complete statement wih reference, if somewhat loosely, to books.

Please keep in touch and be tempted to join our exhibition due late September this year. I can send detail when the entry forms are complete.

Enjoyed looking at your work shown here but will go to your website for more.

The exhibition presents two connected bodies of material: a survey of artists’ books by Australian painter, sculptor and bookmaker Robert Jacks (1942-2014), and an extensive selection of publications drawn from Jacks’ own collection, many of which were purchased from Printed Matter in the early years of the organization.

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